Saturday, February 9, 2008
Changing Light in Vintage Paperback
Changing Light is out in a gorgeous paperback from Vintage, on sale February 12. I'm working on a screenplay, my first, an adaptation of the novel. I now watch movies with the script in mind. Juno is partly such a good movie because the script is very tight, and the characters do not so much change, as reveal more and more of themselves as the film goes on. The Good German is a bad movie for many reasons but among them, the script is very bad. Words are placed in the characters mouths as if they were robotic history lessons. But I don't really know what I'm talking about.
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Aha, a screenplay, eh? One of the things that will be more "centerstage" in a film over the book is the landscape. It will become more of a character. "Juno" was wonderful . . . but watch "English Patient," "No Country For Old Men" and "Witness" for how the "outside" world/landscape influences the interior relationships.
in Peace,
Larry Patten
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